Overview plus: Fibromatoses in childhood: The desmoid/fibromatosis complex

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 126-131

  Dormans, John P ^a   Spiegel, David ^b   Meyer, James ^a   Asada, Naohiro ^c   Alman, Benjamin A ^d   Pill, Stephan G ^a   Himelstein, Bruce ^a   Womer, Richard ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c National Kanazawa Wakamatsu Hospital   (Japan)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood neoplasms; Desmoid tumors; Fibromatosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CARCINOGENESIS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DESMOID TUMOR; FIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMA; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 0035432406     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.1181     Document Type: Review

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